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I bet a few do.
A guy on pistonheads ordered the latest Mini Cooper S GP edition without test driving it. Only got drive a normal S and hope it was worth the extra money when it arrived.
Although I agree with what your saying, some budgets will last forever because the compound is so hard, either way they still shouldn't be fitted to any car lol.
The ones Fred is selling are Genuine Renault items.
The ones on ebay are Mintex pads and Mintex discs.
People say non genuine bearings don't last as long.
Them ones on ebay will be no better than oem for stopping power, the rears doing literally nothing anyway.
I think if your on a budget/don't want to spend massive amounts you won't get much of a better tyre than these, or Uniroyal RS2 etc but its horses for courses etc.
Yes, tyres are one of the factors that makes these cars.
Look at any of the following, premium brands are Pirelli, Michelin, Continental, Dunlop, Vredestein. Then the mid range is sort of Yokohama, Falken, Hankook.
Most popular on here seems to be Pirelli Pzero Neros, Michelin PS3s, Conti...
Sidewalls wasn't something I noticed and I do hammer the car. They just seemed to wear fast.
No the Pirellis lasted great, if I still had them I reckon the rears would of easily lasted 50k miles. The fronts lasted plenty of abuse over 14kish miles, they took a proper hammering. Depending on...
My sabelt wheel is wrecked, think I will tryLlewllyn recommended, that looks like its come up great. Other than that im going to buy a cheap horrible wheel off ebay for £20 then send mine off for trimming.
Personally I found the Pzeros better. Not by huge amounts but just slightly overall.
I only had the Michelins fitted for approx 3-5k miles and they were already down to 4mm. Found them softer than the Pzeros. So far that reasoning and the price of them compared to the Pirellis I found the...
In the first 3 months of my contract where you get unlimited with Voda, they text me and said after the 3 month I averaged 4.5gb a month.
That was only because it was free though so was proper hammering it.
Still use 2gb quite comfortably now though.